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Unable to use Wireless adapter in Debian

Hello there,
I recently installed debian.4.0.r6.i386 on my system. The installation does not seem to detect my Belkin Wireless G Notebook card (model F5D7010). It will be apprecited if someone could interpret the excerpts below and recommend a solution.

Hiya, I found this Ubuntu thread, which if you can modify it slightly should give you a lot of help, it seems this card uses different chips with every version release or so. Drivers for Belkin Wireless G Notebook Card [Archive] - Ubuntu Forums
You should probably try using the version of NDISWrapper that Debian supplies. Do let us know if you get stuck or just need to ask a question.

Thanks Mike. I wish that I could follow the HowTo exactly as presented. Unfortunately, I could not follow it.

First, the http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/j...,33/id,list_b/ did not work. I went to Realtek. I could not find any Linux driver listed for RTL8185L. But there were three Linux drivers listed for RTL8187L. One of them was for Linux kernel 2.6.22. This was certainly not for me because I am using kernel 2.6.18. Not sure which to choose between the other two options, I decided to download both. I unpacked the files in each package, but I could not find any of the files specified in the HowTo. I tried to follow the installation instructions for the Debian 3.1 package. Sadly, this resulted in error 127 messages. At this point I stopped because I was getting even more confused. Here are the contents of the Debian 3.1 package:

Guys! Please help. I am beginning to feel like I am in a hopless situation. Learning Linux has been rather frustrating for me, but I am not turning back. Your contributions go far in urging me on. please do not relent.

I haven't ever tried compiling that driver, but if you look in that directory you will see a readme.txt file, open that and see what it says.
you can browse there with your file manager or you can open it from the command line.
nano /module/readme.txt

I'll assume that's the wired connection only.
I would try installing the version of wpa_supplicant that Debian makes available through their repos. Use your package manager to install that, then download this driver from the RealTek website. (I found it)ftp://202.65.194.212/cn/wlan/rtlwlan-8185(1094).zip (Hard link)
Unzip that, and then try following the README file that should be included.